(n.) An answer to a reply; or, in general, an answer or reply.
(n.) The defendant's answer to the plaintiff's replication.
(v. i.) To make a rejoinder.
Example Sentences:
(1) We hope that this rejoinder clarifies some of the misconceptions that may arise from the Gross and Schuch article and that physical therapists consider very carefully the rationale for any type of exercise program for post-polio patients.
(2) Thus, the obvious rejoinder to Romney's assertions is to ask him point blank: "OK, Governor Romney, what loopholes would you cut?
(3) The speech is a rejoinder to Osborne's view that we should not go faster than other countries.
(4) The expansion of stores across the UK is a self-conscious rejoinder to any lingering embarrassment, with boss Ronny Gottschlich announcing he wants to target "Maidstone mums" who are "no longer afraid to be seen in a Lidl store".
(5) In this rejoinder it is argued that by Pressy's own definition and application of this construct his theory should be able to account for our results.
(6) After a chastening week that included defeats to Liverpool and Juventus, they produced a characteristic rejoinder.
(7) The second tendency has led her to being branded a feminist writer, and certainly there’s an argument that a show such as Scott & Bailey is a sparky feminist rejoinder to so much of the macho posturing that passes for police drama.
(8) A rejoinder with supportive data are presented to demonstrate both the substantive parallels and the clinical concordance that exist between MCMI and DSM-III criteria.
(9) In this rejoinder, I: (1) underscore the thrust of the choices Wicker has clarified and the p references he has recommended; (2) suggest an alternative route for the ecologically-oriented research process, one in which the conceptual and substantive "paths" have coequal and interdependent importance in determining the nature and direction of the research process; and (3) discuss in greater depth the search for universal laws.
(10) A founder, with Gerhard Richter, of capitalist realism (a rejoinder to British and American pop art) in the 1960s), Polke went on to make an enormous variety of hallucinatory, poisonous, gorgeous and unsettling works that still reverberate with a strange, dark humour.
(11) He also threw a BBC journalist out of a press conference with the angry rejoinder: "Go out.
(12) While an effective rejoinder to the critique can be offered, the critique plus the rejoinder nonetheless require some modifications of the initial separation-individuation concept.
(13) In response to Brecher's strong reaction to his rejoinder, Glick highlights the major points of his December 1985 essay and reaffirms his conviction that physicians' strikes are unethical, as are all strikes that endanger human lives.
(14) Hume's rejoinder, delivered through the mouth of Philo, is both subtle and plain.
(15) But he brushed aside all criticism with the rejoinder that the British press was the last institution that could criticise television - even for screening staged pratfalls and other disasters for his You've Been Framed (1990-97) programmes.
(16) The Runners Run, run, run Shep Smith’s rejoinder to “irresponsible” Ebola coverage “Hysterical voices on the television” Have you been flying BLAH Airlines?
(17) Free market fundamentalists have a quick rejoinder at the ready: digital monoliths are simply too complex for regulators to understand.
(18) Until now, however, the pollsters have had one obvious rejoinder to recooking their data in the light of the results – namely, in the absence of any fresh evidence, what else are we supposed to do?
(19) Glick's rejoinder in the December 1985 issue of JME has been answered by Brecher in this March 1986 issue (p. 40-42).
(20) Subjects in Experiment 2 rated the scenario interactants and their relationships as a function of the use of direct and indirect replies and rated possible rejoinders to these replies.
Reply
Definition:
(v. i.) To make a return in words or writing; to respond; to answer.
(v. i.) To answer a defendant's plea.
(v. i.) Figuratively, to do something in return for something done; as, to reply to a signal; to reply to the fire of a battery.
(v. t.) To return for an answer.
(v. i.) That which is said, written, or done in answer to what is said, written, or done by another; an answer; a response.
Example Sentences:
(1) I said: ‘Apologies for doing this publicly, but I did try to get a meeting with you, and I couldn’t even get a reply.’ And then I had a massive go at him – about everything really, from poverty to uni fees to NHS waiting times.” She giggles again.
(2) Responses to a monthly survey of 450-500 surveyors (usually 250-300 reply).
(3) When asked why the streets of London were not heaving with demonstrators protesting against Russia turning Aleppo into the Guernica of our times, Stop the War replied that it had no wish to add to the “jingoism” politicians were whipping up against plucky little Russia .
(4) Can somebody who is not a billionaire, who stands for working families, actually win an election into which billionaires are pouring millions of dollars?” Naming prominent and controversial rightwing donors, he said: “It is not just Hillary, it is the Koch brothers, it is Sheldon Adelson.” Stephanopoulos seized the moment, asking: “Are you lumping her in with them?” Choosing to refer to the 2010 supreme court decision that removed limits on corporate political donations, rather than address the question directly, Sanders replied: “What I am saying is that I get very frightened about the future of American democracy when this becomes a battle between billionaires.
(5) According to the report filed by the New York state department of financial services (NYSDFS), when warned by a US colleague about dealings with Iran, a Standard Chartered executive caustically replied: "You f---ing Americans.
(6) A survey sent randomly to 30 retail pharmacies got 24 replies.
(7) To which Salim replies: “But you do.” When such intimacy between two men can be broadcast to an audience of millions, we are shown that the ways of portraying gay sex can be reframed.
(8) Of 519 patients on the waiting list, replies were received from 471 (91%).
(9) Justice Hiley later suggested the conduct required by a doctor outside of his profession, as Chapman was describing it, was perhaps a “broad generality” and not specific enough “to create an ethical obligation.” “It’s no broader than the Hippocratic oath,” Chapman said in her reply.
(10) "Most technologies have their bright and dark side," he replies, buoyantly.
(11) Asked about white predominance in the sport, South African rugby journalist Paul Dobson replied: "If you suggest that again I'll get annoyed and put the phone down.
(12) #WhitePrideWorldWide.” Anonymous replied in true vigilante style on Sunday, by taking control of the KKK Twitter account and replacing the logo with its own.
(13) Asked what form the arrangements could take, the peer replied: "Wherever we think that there's something happening that is undesirable and we're looking very carefully at how to draw up those protections."
(14) Asked if he thought the committee had been misled, Whittingdale replied: "I'm not sure yet."
(15) "I can't decide by myself," Mourinho replied when asked how the injuries would influence his team selection at Anfield.
(16) Last year he was asked how it was mathematically possible for all schools to exceed the national average, and replied: " By getting better all the time. "
(17) I watched some boxing last night," he replies in his faint, lisping voice.
(18) The other example is of a woman who had a child who died at the age of 10 and expressed no regrets, but when questioned about whether she would have continued a pregnancy knowingly aware the baby would die in 10 years, the woman replied that she could not imagine how anyone could be so strong as to bear a child knowing the brevity of its life.
(19) Asked whether the US tax code was convoluted and difficult to understand partly because of lobbying by companies including Apple for exemptions, Cook replied: "No doubt."
(20) Rule one surely is to reply to customers' phone calls and letters.